Cai Shangjun

{{short description|Chinese film director and screenwriter|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1967}}

| occupation = Director, screenwriter

| awards = FIPRESCI Prize (Pusan)
2007 The Red Awn
Golden Alexander
2007 The Red Awn

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| p = Cài Shàngjūn

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{{Infobox Chinese

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|c=蔡尚君

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|p=Cài Shàngjūn

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Cai ShangjunSeveral websites use an incorrect pinyin romanization of Cai's given name: "Xiangjun." ({{zh|c=蔡尚君|p=Cài Shàngjūn}}) is a Chinese film director and screenwriter. Cai graduated from the Central Academy of Drama in 1992. Since then, his major work has been that of a professional screenwriter. Cai was part of the team, along with Zhang Yang, Diao Yi'nan, and Liu Fendou, that co-wrote the screenplays for two of Zhang's films: Spicy Love Soup (1997) and Shower (1999). Cai also cowrote a script for Zhang's Sunflower (2005).

In 2007, Cai directed his first film, The Red Awn, which won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2007 Pusan International Film Festival.{{cite news|url=https://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=festivals&jump=story&id=2709|publisher=Variety|title=Art films win at Pusan Film Festival|author=Elley, Derek|accessdate=2007-12-03|date=12 October 2007}}

In 2011, Cai won the Silver Lion for the Best Director at the 68th Venice International Film Festival with the film People Mountain People Sea.{{cite news|url=http://ca.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idCATRE7883G120110910|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120601161141/http://ca.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idCATRE7883G120110910|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 June 2012|publisher=Reuters|title=Russian film "Faust" takes top prize in Venice|accessdate=2011-09-11|date=10 September 2011}}